NASHVILLE WINE AUCTION Celebrates the 40th Annual ory sa st vo i r h e t h h t e e w t i s n a e t 40TH ANNUAL f e i n r d t h e c u JULY 2 0 and 26-2 7, 2019 LIVE AUCTION REMEMBERing 1996 Celebrating 40 Years LOT 100 A CELEBRATION 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING The magnums on the tables are available for purchase. They honor the following past Guests of Honor: Tonight Nashville Wine Auction has brought • Au Bon Climat, 1994 out the magnum to salute our past 40 years of wine auctions! • Cakebread Cellars, 2003 & 2012 As you take your seat for dinner, notice that • Cardinale, 2015 your table has a beautiful magnum of wine • Château Lynch Bages, from a past Guest of Honor. 1992 & 2012 • Chateau Montelena, 2009 You will be invited to purchase the magnum on your table shortly after you are seated • Chateau Potelle, 2005 (please wait to open the wine!) You can • Crocker & Starr Wines, 2018 share it with your friends tonight, or take it • Davies Vineyards, 2017 home for later. The choice is yours... • Hirsch Vineyards, 2017 The tag on the magnum will announce • Joseph Phelps Vineyards, the celebrated Guest of Honor along with 2003 & 2009 the price of the bottle. Simply fill out the • L’Aventure Winery, 2010 back of the tag with your name(s) and • L’Ecole No. 41, 2002 bid number(s) (multiples if splitting with • Pride Mountain Vineyards, friends), hand the tag over to a volunteer, 2007 and help fund the fight against cancer. • Qupé, 2004 This lot includes: • Ravenswood Winery, 1994 • Ridge Vineyards, 1994 • One magnum per table honoring • Schramsberg Vineyards, a past l’Eté du Vin Guest of Honor 1988, 2009, & 2017 • Silver Oak Cellars, 2007 • Spottswoode Vineyard & Winery, 1998, 2007, & 2018 • Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, 2001 • Tenute Silvio Nardi, 2007 • Woodward Canyon, 2002 43 | Live Auction CHASE COLE LOT 101 PAM & STEVE TAYLOR FRIENDS OF NASHVILLE WINE AUCTION PURE HAPPINESS Thank you Chase for offering these lovely bubbles. IN BUBBLY FORM Let’s get this party started! “Too much of anything is bad, This wine lot includes: but too much Champagne is just right.” ~ Mark Twain • Jacquesson Millesime Extra Brut Champagne There’s a reason most fabulous events start 1996 (1.5L) with a bottle of bubbles: it’s physically • Piper-Heidsieck impossible to be anything but happy when Rare Millesime Brut drinking Champagne. Just try and carry Champagne 2002 a bad mood over into a glass of Blanc de (2 bottles) Blancs. You won’t be able to. • Pol Roger Brut Champagne 2006 The Champagne region has captured the • Taittinger Comtes de allure of romantics and celebrities alike Champagne Blanc de for centuries. Multiple fermentations, Blancs Brut Champagne aging vessels, vintages, and dedication to 2006 the perfect bubble combine to find both perfect balance and pure happiness. • Schramsberg Vineyards Blanc de Blancs Brut 2015 Schramsberg Vineyards focuses on • Schramsberg Vineyards producing the finest and most complex Blanc de Noirs Brut 2015 handcrafted sparkling wines. The grapes are • Schramsberg Vineyards hand harvested, the wines are handcrafted, Brut Rosé 2015 the bottles are stacked and riddled by hand, • Schramsberg Vineyards and some are even hand labeled. Extra Brut 2011 • Schramsberg Vineyards All effervescence aside, Champagne and Jones Vineyards Brut Schramsberg sparkling wines are made by 2013 the Méthode Traditionelle. The impossibly tiny bubbles make for the easiest of • Schramsberg Vineyards drinking and this lot of sparklers from the Marin County Brut Rosé Old World and New is the easiest paddle 2013 raise you’ll have all evening. Bring on the bubbles! Donated by Chase Cole, Pam & Steve Taylor, Friends of Nashville Wine Auction 44 | Live Auction JOHN & JENNIFER STEELE LOT 102 John and Jennifer, we are so inspired by your passion for life, and we’re so grateful for your passion for wine! INSIGNIA: The 70s were an exciting time, especially 40 YEARS OF for the emerging Napa Valley. Joe Phelps BLENDING MAGIC had an idea in 1974 that would change the way vintners looked at Napa’s winemaking This wine lot includes: potential. He wanted to make one wine that represented the best of what Joseph Phelps • Joseph Phelps Vineyards Vineyards could produce each year, whether Insignia 2007 (2 bottles) it be a Cabernet, Syrah, Merlot, or even • Joseph Phelps Vineyards Chardonnay or Riesling. As it happened, Insignia 2008 1974 was a great year for Cabernet • Joseph Phelps Vineyards Sauvignon in Napa Valley, and the 1974 Insignia 2010 Insignia was 94% Cab. The following year, • Joseph Phelps Vineyards Merlot dominated the blend, and in 1976, Insignia 2011 it was back to Cab. From 1977 on, Cabernet Sauvignon was never less than 50% of the • Joseph Phelps Vineyards Insignia blend, and Joe’s vision evolved: Insignia 2012 Insignia would always be a proprietary red Bordeaux-style blend… California’s first ever proprietary red Bordeaux-style blend. Joe was the first to see the merit of blending, and year after year, Insignia proves to be one of the world’s finest Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated blends. Produced without regard to quantity and with only one goal in mind – to make the best wine possible each vintage – Insignia continues the pioneering legacy founded by Joe more than forty years ago. Donated by John & Jennifer Steele 45 | Live Auction LOT 103 BARRY & LEA STOUFFER We are grateful for this first time donation from Barry SPECIAL SILVER and Lea Stouffer. What an introduction to l’Eté du Vin. OAK VERTICAL Thank you for giving from your heart. One varietal, aged exclusively in American This wine lot includes: oak, and worthy of cellaring for decades to come… There is truly something special • One case of Silver Oak about Silver Oak. Cellars Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon in With a vision born from a dairy barn in 1972, vertical: 2001 – 2012 Raymond Twomey Duncan, a Colorado entrepreneur, and his pal Justin Meyer, a winemaker and former Christian Brother, started with only 1,100 cases of their inaugural vintage. When other California Cabernet producers went for greater ripeness and higher alcohol, seeking to appeal to Robert Parker’s palate, Silver Oak maintained its balanced, relatively low alcohol levels that first generated that loyal consumer following. The Alexander Valley bottling (always 100% Cabernet Sauvignon), has an amazing phenomenon: a capacity for aging as well as early drinkability. Stylistically consistent, these are wines that triumph over and over again. This vertical of 2001 through 2012 Alexander Valley Cabernet is a prize for all you Silver Oak folks out there! Donated by Barry & Lea Stouffer in memory of Gerri Wiggins, Don Littlefield, Ina Rae Stouffer and J. Paul Stouffer and honoring C.W. Henderson and Dale Stouffer 46 | Live Auction SAM LEWIS & MONA HART LOT 104 Sam and Mona, we’re so pleased that you offered up this 18L of Rudd AND your lovely home. This party will FUN-FILLED, be a blast! RUDD-FILLED Rudd’s Oakville Estate is considered one of EVENING the best places on earth to grow Cabernet (MULTISALE) Sauvignon, and coincidentally, Sam Lewis and Mona Hart’s patio is considered one of Event details: the best places on earth to drink it! • Friday, September 20, 2019 Sam and Mona cordially invite 60 lucky guests to their amazing home on Friday, • At the home of Sam September 20, 2019 for a fun-filled, Rudd- Lewis & Mona Hart filled evening. They will be opening an 18 Liter of 2003 Rudd Cabernet Sauvignon! Multisale for 60 guests • $200 per spot The last in a series of volcanic landslides created a small oasis of land in Napa, a Please note: You can also strip of land that Leslie Rudd was fortunate buy this lot through Mobile enough to procure in 1996. The soil is iron- Bidding in the Silent Auction, rich, creating a structure and complexity Lot 204. After the closing of that is as stunning as it is unique. the Silent Auction, available spots will be sold from the » This wine’s reddish/brown label is the podium during the Live color of the rustic, volcanic, rocky soils Auction where there is a found in this part of the Oakville Corridor. potential for price increase. Composed of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, Guarantee both your spot 12% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and the price by purchasing 3% Merlot and 3% Malbec, it boasts this lot in the Silent Auction. an opaque purple color along with a sumptuous bouquet of charcoal, scorched earth (reminiscent of Haut Brion), and intense black and blue fruits. Rich, opulent and full-bodied, this 2003 is performing even better than it did early on. (RP 95) A seriously stunning wine, a seriously impressive large format bottle, and a seriously picturesque patio are the perfect ingredients for the perfect September evening. Add to that the seriously talented Chef Kevin Ramquist of the Unicorn Nashville providing the hors d’oeuvres... Don’t miss this party! Donated by Sam Lewis & Mona Hart 47 | Live Auction THE DEWBERRY LOT 105 DELANEY OYSTER HOUSE HUSK CHARLESTON BESPOKE PRIVATE TOURS DAVID BRAGG TRAVEL SWANKY We offer special thanks to David Bragg and Kenny CHARLESTON Lyons for your generous partnership every time we call! GETAWAY FOR If you joined us for Pairings in February, then FOUR you know that Charleston is so hot right now. Its food and wine scene alone is enough to This trip for 4 includes: warrant a trip to this dynamic destination. We’ve got the hookup for a positively perfect • 2-night stay for 2 couples Charleston getaway! at The Dewberry in Charleston Two couples will experience Charleston • Lunch for 4 at the new in style, starting with a two night stay at Delaney Oyster House The Dewberry.